I was referring to the delta, if they move to their own alt store, and avoid following Apples privacy rules. If they can make in more than 50 cents extra over their current revenue from iOS users, it’s easy math.
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Same here. And I've seen quite a few people make those arguments. None of them distinguished between large businesses and single/indie developers. All they basically said was this type of scenario would NEVER happen...and this very article completely disproves those claims. Honestly, I figured they'd be proven wrong! Just didn't think it would happen so fast 😂
You know, I don't really scour MacRumors about this topic, so maybe every person here has a super surface level understanding of this topic, but in the many other tech circles I find myself in, across Reddit, Discord, and other online and in real life communities, this seems to be what most people understand.
Sorry I don’t agree. It wasn’t the small indie developers who were fighting Apple in the courts for this. It will be the big users who will decide they don’t need Apple and want a share of that. You say only epic because they were banned but part of the reason they were banned is they were agitating for this. Look at the pc market where if you are a gamer you might need to have half a dozen store apps to get the games you want. Apple thankfully was shielded from this as epic didn’t care about the Mac market.
This was never meant to benefit the users, not even indie devs, only the big developers..
Like why would you, as a user, want to pay the same amount to download from different stores to get the exact copy of the software?
And noway small indie devs is going to benefit from this either. They will probably need to pay a higher cut as now they are dealing with companies whose only revenue source is the cut from running their alt stores
Like why would you, as a user, want to pay the same amount to download from different stores to get the exact copy of the software?
And noway small indie devs is going to benefit from this either. They will probably need to pay a higher cut as now they are dealing with companies whose only revenue source is the cut from running their alt stores
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It will be the large companies who will protect their turf outside Apple. Meta/FB warned investors on impact of Apple Privacy rule changes. FB can move out track users more intrusively and increase revenue. They can incentivize people who install their Apps from the own Appe store.
They got their account back and doing exactly that.
It will be a major gain of money if they can leave AppStore. They have huge marketing budget to offset the AppStore present lost and can sell your data for much higer profit.
They can't. Apple made it clear that if you want to distribute outside of the App Store in the EU, you're not allowed to distribute in the App Store in the EU.
Epic was banned because they wanted to use their own payment system, not because they didn't want to be in the App Store. The reason they're only going to have their products in a separate store is because they quite literally cannot be in the App Store anymore.
In the PC market, most stores that aren't Steam see a small install base. The only other platform to gain any traction is Epic Games Store, which developers still see a fraction of what they do on Steam, despite taking a larger cut.
If large developers like Spotify or Meta benefit from a huge user base... then small developers would also benefit.
I never heard that small developers wanted to leave the App Store.
You need to put your apps where the people are, right?
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So are we going to end up with hundreds if not thousands of alternative app stores of varying reputability and apps that might only be available in one of them?
What percentage of iOS applications available through AltStore are available on the Apple App Store?
Right. I was agreeing with you, and showing that they make more than .5 Euro for each user.
Ask the same question for Mac App store. You will see where we are heading towards
Great, now us Europeans will have to download all these cr*p alt stores because developers will force us to install their store to use their apps, while US users will enjoy the convenience and safety of having just one official app store for everything. Great user experience.
"But it won't change anything, it'll just give you more choices" they said.
In Android world, established alt stores takes up to 80-90% of the cut.
I can only say good luck to the devs who wanted this
So that Apple is finally in competition with their AppStore and has to deliver quality. In other words, the quality that the company has been promising for years but not delivering.
Apple has ignored its rules for its own apps right from the start. Malware has been smuggled into the AppStore dozens of times. There were already apps that looked like games and turned into crypto apps after one click.
Thanks to incidents like this, we know that Apple's promises of a controlled and secure store are a lie. Nothing is checked as long as Apple gets its commission.
Alternative AppStores can change that.
It’s good for us in the US to see the **** show develop in the EU so we don’t have to suffer lmao
Towards a future where I need to download my applications outside the App Store if I want them to not be gimped by the App Store rules?
You were always able to download them with 3rd party profiles.
And what kind of *** app you need that will be gimped by App Store rules anyway?
But again, it was always available
So how will they bypass OS level rules by distributing their ipa via a different channel?
If the U.S./North America ever got one, it'll probably be called AltStore NTSC
